Wednesday, 10 May 2023

EF12 Class 10- Finish "The Camel", Listening 1.1

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s class plan:

·      “100 Most Used Verbs in English”

Go over some. Give examples.

·      Continue “The Camel”

·      “Making Introductions: Everyday Dialogues”

·      Listening work: Word List 1.1

·      HW   Read for homework- “Making Questions with ‘Do’ and ‘Does’”

 

Thursday

·      “100 Most Used Nouns in English”

·      “Making Questions with ‘Do’ and ‘Does’”

·      Review paragraph structure and format

 

Friday

·      Test#2 - paragraph

 

 

 

Top 100 Most Used Verbs

41. turn

He turned his car into the parking lot.

She turned her head to look at the eagle.

 

turn + preposition

turn on – Please turn on the light.

turn in- She is going to turn in. go to bed / go to sleep

turn over- flip

turn over- the car engine starting The car turns over when I turn the key.

 

 

turn toward- face in the direction of something  Muslims turn toward the east when they pray.

 

 

prepositon changes the meaning of the verb

phrasal verb = verb + preposition

Knowing phrasal verbs are extremely important to be able to speak and understand English well.

 

verb + preposition

look + at  The kids looked at the fireworks.

look + after- care for, take care of   We have to look after our children.

look + for- search, try to find

look + up – raise your eyes   We looked up to see the eagle.

look + up to- respect, admire   I look up to my father.

 

verb + preposition

break + down-   Her car breaks down a lot.

break + up- finish a relationship   Shira broke up with her boyfriend.

 

START LEARNING THESE!!

https://blog.lingoda.com/en/top-50-phrasal-verbs-in-english/

https://engdic.org/500-phrasal-verbs-list-in-english-meaning/

 

If you want to be a good English speaker and listening, you should learn as many of these as possible. The more of these you know, the more natural your English will sound.

The secret of learning these is using them everyday in spoken English.

Do you speak English outside the classroom?

-with friends, with neighbor, shopping, with kids, at work, at the gym, etc.

 

 

We will do past tense verbs next week. We will do future tense verbs after that.

 

86. consider- think about (phrasal verbs)

She considered which country to move to.

 

imagine- think about something is not real

The little boy imagines that he can fly.

imagine(v)   imagination(n)

The little girl has a big imagination.

 

 

100. remain -not that common- -stay, keep

They remained at the park until 8pm.

 

 

“The Camel”

B Vocabulary

eyelashes

eyebrows

 

fick   sick   tick   thick

 

10. about- approximately

 

Farsi – true/right/correct

Is it true? Is it right? Is it correct?

 

C Questions

Write a short sentence to answer each question.

1.    Where do camels live?

Camels live in the desert. Camels live in hot dry places.

Camels live in places that have little water.

 

2.    What does a camel store in its hump?

There is stored food in its hump.

A camel stores fat in its hump.

Camels store fat in their humps.

 

3.    The camel doesn’t store fat all over its body because the desert is hot.

The camel doesn’t store fat all over its body because the desert doesn’t want to be too hot.

 

4.It stores heat during the day because the nights are cool.

 

5.    The Arabian camel has only/just one hump. The Bactrian camel has two humps.

6.    A Bactrian camel has long thick hair because the winters are cold in Central Asia.

Because the winters are cold in Central Asia. VERY CASUAL, TALKING, NOT WRITING

 

7.    A camel needs long eyelashes because eyelashes keep the sand out of the camel’s eyes.

Because eyelashes keep the sand out of the camel’s eyes. GOOD FOR CASUAL, NOT FOR SCHOOL WRITING

 

8.    Arabic has 150 words to describe camels because they are very important to them.

Arabic has 150 words to describe camels because camels are very important/valuable animals.

Your health is the most valuable thing that you have.

 

1. The camel can go without food and water for a long time.

 

 

D Comprehension

DIFFICULT VOCABULARY

comprehension (noun) understanding

She wants to improve her listening comprehension.

-reading comprehension- understanding what you are reading

incomprehension

comprehend (verb) understand

 

We are now camel experts.

 

 

 

 

Listening work: Word List 1.1

I will read out a sentence that uses one of the words. You have to listen for which word I am using from the word list. Then you can try a sentence with one of the words. We will listen to you.

1.    cent

sends

sense

2.    safer  Wearing seatbelt is safer than not. A seatbelt goes around your waist.

wrist  elbow   knee   ankle   ear   nose

3.    tea

 

Your turn!

4.    hot

5.    put

6.    matter

7.    shoe   I lost one of my shoes.

8.    ate

9.    match – competition, game

10.                       roller

11.                       cop- police

cup-glass

12.knock – She knocks on the door. The Amazon driver knocks on the door.

13. cheap- not expensive

14.     meat

15. fix

figs – fruit

16. could

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